All Souls Catholic Primary School Science Plan

All Souls Primary

Main Teaching Knowledge/Skill:

Independent/Group Work (including

differentiation)

To know the meaning of

properties of materials.

Remind children of the work they

did in Year 4 about the threestates of matter: solid, liquid &gas. Ask children to describesome of the features of thesestates & list them on f/c (refer toplan resource). Discuss the typesof properties of materials thatchildren have studied in previousyears too.Model to children how we can testdifferent materials for theirproperties and explain some ofthe terms that could be used todescribe some properties.Briefly explain that materials canbe put into two group: Naturaland man-made (artificial) and linkthis to previous learning done inGeography.

Children to write previous knowledge of properties

and materials on their whiteboards.Children to write a definition of what propertiesare.